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...most likely, a generous combination of both, the price will be a huge budget deficit. With the recession pushing federal spending up and revenue estimates down, a fiscal 1959 deficit of $5 billion or more already looms. Tax cuts or massive new spending could easily mean a red-ink splash of more than $10 billion, biggest since...
Payment for Services? Schwartz's last big splash of the week came when he was subpoenaed by the subcommittee to testify about some of the accusations he had been flinging about. He appeared tired, subdued, and, for the first time, civil. He was also an arresting witness...
...Brooklyn-born Gloria Davy, 25, made her first musical splash four years ago as the replacement for Leontyne Price in Porgy and Bess. She toured in the role from San Francisco to Cairo, finally abandoned Bess to avoid being typed. She studied Aïda, sang the title role in the opera house at Nice but had never attempted it with a big-league company before her debut at the Metropolitan Opera last week. Soprano Davy was thrown in with a strong cast-Kurt Baum as Radames, Irene Dalis as Amneris. Leonard Warren as Amonasro-which might well have overpowered...
...bottle of rum was produced to fuel four divers who would splash into the cold pool behind Mamie's number. Director Dwight Hemion insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello. Mamie asked for an "idiot card" to cue her at the pool, and, added Executive Producer Jules Green, "make sure that the water is deep enough where she's supposed to dive...
Last week when Jon entered the prestigious state championships at North Sydney, few noticed his leggy kid sister tagging along. Then Ilsa made a splash of her own. Swimming in the 440-yd. freestyle, she finished second by only .6 sec. to Australia's great Lorraine Crapp, holder of two Olympic Gold Medals, four world records. This was enough to make square-faced, broad-grinning Ilsa the darling of the galleries...